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[ScottsGT]

Wow…I thought Barracuda was on their game when they designed decals.  I dug out my old Squadron/Signal book on the P-40 to do some referencing.  The Aleutian Tigers had a Star without the blue surround.  I also noticed one of the planes had diamond tread tires.  
Im off to look for correct decals now.   I might just have to live with the kit tires though.  
 

Take note that the eyes are also different.  I’m trying not to let my OCD take over and start calling this “unbuildable” and throw it on the SOD. 

[ScottsGT]

And I just noticed the white fuselage band is leaning in the wrong direction too.  

[BlrwestSiR]

Scott, is the Squadron book correct? Seeing that it's a drawing, it could be off too. Unless there's a pic in the book of the plane showing it match the profile. 

As for the stripe facing the wrong way, just switch the decals around from one side to the other. 

Also, looks like the 49 is smaller on the desal sheet. 

[Martinnfb]

I see blue circle and the stripe as per Barracuda. 

[ScottsGT]

Martin, interesting pic.  Taken a second before that the one in my book.  

Pilot on the right just tossed the football in this pic. 
But this…

[ScottsGT]

And yes, the Squadron book does have the stripe angled wrong in their artwork.  Interesting.  
I’ll probably go ahead and just use the decals as they are.  I’m not out to win any accuracy awards.  Just build a model!  

[Spitfire]

Nearly there, mottling all done, masking removed from the fuselage band and tail, just the markings and detail parts to do.

The set up for the mottling

Mottling done and white masking removed

Undersides masking and Blu Tac removed, nice soft edge on wrap around camouflage.

Had to mottle the cowling seperately as I had left it on the shelf and forgot about it when I did the main airframe.

The last lap

Cheers

Dennis

 

[HubertB]

1 hour ago, ScottsGT said:

And yes, the Squadron book does have the stripe angled wrong in their artwork.  Interesting.  
I’ll probably go ahead and just use the decals as they are.  I’m not out to win any accuracy awards.  Just build a model!  

Whilst the pic submitted by Martin seemed to have a blue surround on « 49 », a closer look confirmed there was no surround. It would seem an easy enough mod, by just cutting the white star out of the blue surround.

Hubert

[HubertB]

4 minutes ago, Spitfire said:

Nearly there, mottling all done, masking removed from the fuselage band and tail, just the markings and detail parts to do.

The set up for the mottling

Mottling done and white masking removed

Undersides masking and Blu Tac removed, nice soft edge on wrap around camouflage.

Had to mottle the cowling seperately as I had left it on the shelf and forgot about it when I did the main airframe.

The last lap

Cheers

Dennis

 

Looking good Dennis 👍

Hubert

[Martinnfb]

BLUE!!!!

The fact that it was faded doesn't mean it wasn't there.

Look at this Burma's K, it's faded but its there.

[ScottsGT]

Awesome find!!  

[HubertB]

Dang ! You’re absolutely right Martin !

Kudos (again) for your unmatchable pic-finding skills

And this confirms (again) that most WWII fighters and ops are out of my  scope-of-knowledga

Hubert

[Martinnfb]

You're most welcome guys. There are few misinformations that have a tendency to circulate and re appear. I don't have much time to dig in into this deep enough today, but I can further help (regarding P-40) if needed, just PM. 

[Spitfire]

17 hours ago, HubertB said:

Looking good Dennis 👍

Hubert

Thank you kindly Hubert, it's slowly growing on me after the struggle to put it together.

Cheers

Dennis

[ScottsGT]

I finally understand the true meaning of “fiddly bits”

 

 

[FullArmor]

8 minutes ago, ScottsGT said:

I finally understand the true meaning of “fiddly bits”

 

 

Yes. been there, done that with trumpeter zil-157 build.😃

[Peterpools]

On 11/11/2024 at 7:30 PM, Martinnfb said:

I see blue circle and the stripe as per Barracuda. 

Seems to my old eyes, each P-40 has the stripes leaning in the opposite direction.

[ScottsGT]

6 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Seems to my old eyes, each P-40 has the stripes leaning in the opposite direction.

I noticed that too.  

[ScottsGT]

Got the P-40 cockpit almost ready to install. 

And made some progress on the HIMTT chassis. Started the wash.  

interesting how the desert sand color didn’t come out in the pic. 

[FullArmor]

3 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

Got the P-40 cockpit almost ready to install. 

And made some progress on the HIMTT chassis. Started the wash.  

interesting how the desert sand color didn’t come out in the pic. 

cockpit looks really nice👍

[Spitfire]

9 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

Got the P-40 cockpit almost ready to install. 

And made some progress on the HIMTT chassis. Started the wash.  

interesting how the desert sand color didn’t come out in the pic. 

That P40 Cockpit is looking really good.

Cheers

Dennis

[ScottsGT]

Yea, Quinta interiors are like the Cliff’s Notes of the modeling world.  

[Count0]

1/72 Erla / Regensberg production line.

 Building a G-10 for myself and an F-2 for a friend. Eduard kits. Pretty typical Eduard so far.

[ScottsGT]

😱 They so tiny!  

[Spitfire]

Still plodding on with this one, I masked and painted the national markings but had to use decals for the rest but they went on fine.

And just for fun with the cowl loosely in place.

And the real thing

Cheers

Dennis